Month: June 2014

I’m a wonderful disaster. So are you. We’re all a mess. We’re in this culture that says take this pill and you’ll be happy, go on this diet and you’ll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul’s dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

It was such a nice feeling when reading ” Norwegian Wood ” , Murakami was mentioning ” The Great Gatsby “. ” The Great Gatsby ” was one of the first “grownup” books I have read , and I loved it ever since .
I wish I could say this to Murakami “Any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine ” .